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On a stormy night in March 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her drunk husband, Stan, out in the rain - and he disappears. Detective Sergeant Bob Robbins and young PC Laurie Oliver are called out to investigate and discover that Stan’s small fishing boat is gone, the rope sawn through. As Bob searches for answers, it becomes apparent that in this small Cornish village where everyone knows everything about everybody, nobody quite knows the truth.

Oleg is a junior giant who just doesn't fit in with his village. He cries because he is lonely, but this floods the village. There's no getting away from it: Oleg is different. When the Lord Mayor tells Oleg that the villagers want a proper giant, who "Raaah's" a lot and rips up trees and eats cows, Oleg knows that he can't be like that, so he has to leave. While he is away, a "proper" giant, Igor, moves into the village and behaves exactly as a "proper" giant should.

Have you ever instantly disliked someone you just met? Or fallen in love at first sight? Have you experienced déjà vu when visiting a town for the first time? Have you "always had" issues with food, or other addictions? These are all past-life indicators - hints of connections to previous lives, the people you knew, and the accumulation of your experiences in those lifetimes.

Alexandra Brontay: a pear-shaped imperfect in a sterile, antisocial 23C London. Her world is like the city, an uncomfortable hotchpotch of the wrecked and the wondrous. The remains of iconic buildings sit next to towering dome structures, bastions of hard light that sink a mile underground. Down there the past is bastardised, sanitised, and reimagined for mass consumption via the hyperreal systems in every apartment and workplace. Inter-human contact is minimal and strictly rationed. Something inside Brontay hates what has been imposed upon her from birth to the core and she yearns for escape....

Stan is having a lie in today. Caroline, his long-suffering wife, went to work this morning and left him with a long list of chores to complete around the house. But he'd rather stay in bed and, well, ahem, yes. It would all be just about the perfect day if a vision of Caroline didn't keep waking Stan up, disturbing his lazy idyll. Caroline has news and he needs to listen to her, for just about the first time ever. Wake up, Stan!